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Updates ever other day....Why?

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I am getting updates on Firefox ever other day, and this has been going on for a while, but now it's getting kind of annoying! Why is my browser requesting updates every other day or so?

I am getting updates on Firefox ever other day, and this has been going on for a while, but now it's getting kind of annoying! Why is my browser requesting updates every other day or so?

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hello, you appear to be using a pre-release beta version which receives frequent updates - you could download and switch to the firefox release version instead which is getting updates on a six week schedule: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/channel/#firefox

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When you are on the Beta update channel then you usually updates twice a week (Tuesday and Friday).

  • "3-bar" Firefox menu button: Help Help-29 > About Firefox
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The Beta channel usually gets say six to twelve updates for each new version with nine being the usual amount in last number of Releases.

So far there is a 31.0b3 yet the Beta page on mozilla.org still links to the old 31.0b1

The more bleeding edge Aurora and Nightly channels gets checkins almost everyday and therefore it gets a update each of those days.


The Firefox Release which is currently 30.0 does not get updates unless they felt a chemspill update was warranted for either security and or stability bug fixes and the first update version would be 30.0.1.

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